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Limits for Render Sandboxes

Render Sandboxes is in public beta.

APIs, defaults, and limits might change during the beta period.

The following limits apply to Render Sandboxes. All limits are subject to change during the beta period.

Compute plans

Each sandbox uses one of the following compute plans, which you specify when you create a sandbox:

PlanSpecs

1c-2g (default)

1 CPU
2 GB RAM

2c-4g

2 CPU
4 GB RAM

4c-8g

4 CPU
8 GB RAM

8c-16g

8 CPU
16 GB RAM

General limits

PropertyLimit

Writable filesystem storage per sandbox

40 GB

Maximum runtime timeout

  • 30 days for nonzero timeouts
  • Disable this timeout with any workspace to run indefinitely

If a sandbox is suspended and later resumed, this timeout restarts.

Maximum idle timeout

24 hours (you can also disable idle timeout entirely)

Suspended sandbox resumability period

30 days

Sandbox groups per workspace

10

Concurrent sandboxes per sandbox group

1,000

See details below.

Environment variables per sandbox

100 variables, with a combined size of 256 KB across names and values

Supported regions

1 (Oregon)

Need to increase these sandbox limits?

Reach out with details about your use case:

Talk to our team

Concurrency per group

  • Each sandbox group can have up to 1,000 concurrent sandboxes.
    • Suspended sandboxes do not count toward this limit.
    • You can reduce the concurrency limit for an individual group.
  • To resume a suspended sandbox, its group must have available capacity.
  • While a group is at its concurrency limit, requests to create or resume a sandbox fail with HTTP code 429.
    • To reclaim capacity, terminate sandboxes you no longer need.

API rate limits

Sandbox API operations have separate default rate limits. These limits apply per user, shared across that user's API keys. Requests that exceed a rate limit fail with HTTP code 429.

OperationRequests per minute

Create a sandbox

100

Terminate a sandbox

1,000

Execute a command

1,000

Upload or download a file or directory

1,000

Read sandbox and sandbox group resources

400

Write sandbox group resources

100

Capture a snapshot

10

Limits for Render Sandboxes
  • Compute plans
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